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1 " But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to. "
― Danny Wallace , Yes Man
2 " At first I assumed he was a Mexican, but slowly began to realise that a real Mexican probably wouldn't be wearing a sombrero in a London nightclub. And he'd probably have a real moustache, not a stick-on one. A Mexican with a stick-on moustache would be like a Super-Mexican, because he'd have two moustaches, and that'd be cool, because a Super-Mexican could probably use his poncho as a cape, and then I realised I was saying all this to the man's face. "
3 " Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes. "
4 " It appears your son was 85 percent curry! "
― Danny Wallace , Friends Like These
5 " I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them. "
― Danny Wallace
6 " And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We’re tiny. We don’t matter. We’re here for a second and then gone the next. We’re a sneeze in the life of the universe. "
― Danny Wallace , Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe
7 " If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it. "
8 " I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment. "
9 " Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact. "
10 " The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them. "
11 " What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go. "
― Danny Wallace , Charlotte Street
12 " I apologize. I feel I’ve let you down somehow with my tales of reasonable and efficient travel. I’m sure if I’d been Bill Bryson my taxi driver would have told me a funny story, or something. I’m afraid mine simply listened to the BBC London and was outraged by everything the presenter was saying. He did spit when he talked, though, if that’s any use to you. "
― Danny Wallace , Join Me!
13 " Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same. "
14 " ...maybe sometimes it's riskier not to take a risk. Sometimes all you're guaranteeing is that things will stay the same. "
15 " I mean No is power. No says, "I'm in charge." Think about how many times you've said yes in the past year, and how many times you would've liked to have said no instead. Maybe being able to say no is the one thing that keeps us sane. Some people go through their whole lives saying yes over and over again--yes to things they don't want to do but feel obliged to; yes to things that allow other people to take advantage of them, just because that's the way things are, the way things have always been. Some people need to learn how to say no. Because every time they say yes, they say no to themselves. "
16 " The people who know you well are the people who know your vulnerabilities. "
17 " I poked a monk. "
18 " The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by. "
19 " Hello?''Mum?''Yes! Who's that?.''Your only son.'A pause.'Daniel?'To be fair, I'd only given her one clue. "
20 " I had it all planned. Or, not planned exactly, but I'd planned to make plans. Plans were very much part of my plan. "
